Family of MH370 captain break silence to reject suicide theory

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Bernard LaganSydney

Last updated at 2:13PM, May 19 2014

The family of the captain of the missing Malaysian Boeing 777 today rejected accusations that he was a terrorist or unstable while speaking for the first time since the aircraft disappeared ten weeks ago.

On behalf of the family, Asuad Khan, the brother of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s wife, Faizah, denied that the marriage had broken down or that he had deliberately taken the lives of the 239 passengers and crew aboard MH370 after the flight set out from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.

Appearing on an Australian Broadcasting Corporation television investigation into the loss of the aircraft,